Mop



May 20 1930' R. L. HORSLEY V1,759,403

Patented May 20, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ROBERT L. HORSLEY, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO ISAAC D. BLOCK, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE MOP Application filed November 22, 1928.

objectis economy in the manufacture of mops, by saving the portions of yarn usually bound up in shaping the mop heads and covering the metal fastenings. Mops now on the market of the class herein described lack efficient distribution and arrangement of the yarn in the mop heads, are not easily wrung and aired out, and 1n the manufacture portions of yarn are bound up 1n compact mass "not available for service but necessary in shaping the heads and covering the metal fastenings. In my construction these several defects are overcome.

One form ofthe invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is an elevation of the mop; Figure 2, a perspective of a reel-shaped metal frame for holding the yarn composing the mop head and for attachingsaid head to a handle; Figure 3, a plan view of the mop head structure as built up vin frame l, showing only the inner portions of the yarn; and Figure 4, a detailed View showing the attachment of frame l to a handle. l

Referring to the figures by numerals, a reel shaped frame l, Fig. 2, has side members 2, 2 spaced equidistant apart, slightly converging and curving to an axial center at the closed end of the frame. Mop head 4, Fig. 3, is built up from wisps of yarn 3, 3 turned about members 2, 2 of frame 1, with the knuckles of the turns facing each other and their sides in contact within the frame.

The` portion of yarn of mop head 4 included within frame 1 is pressed down into the frame for admitting the' lower end of handle 6 between the upper portions of members 2, 2 and is attached to said handle through said members as indicated in Fig. 4; wherein members 2, 2 are brought up against the side of the handle with bent terminals 5 drawn into holes bored in the handle for the purpose, and a metal clip 7 is fitted tightly over the members and a nail 8 is 'driven through the clip and into the handle. The strands of yarn composing the mop head are Serial No. 321,091.

secured in place by their angular turns about the members of the frame and by the stress among themselves and against the end of the handle.

The points of superiority in a mop of the construction justv -described are, the yarn is distributed and arranged in a more eflicient manner, is more easily wrung, the metal fastenings can not come in contact with a floor, and no eXtra yarn is used up in finishing the mop head. i

I am aware that mops have been made' wherein metal fastenings held the yarn against the end of the handle and no eXtra binding was used to finish the head, but in each of such cases the metal fastenings have been left more or less bare and subject to contact with a floor and the yarn lacked propbers attached to the sides of said handle and extending beyond the lower end, and a mop head compos-ed of four distinct wisps of yarn with each of said wisps turned about a separate member of said frame and held under stress among themselves and against the end of the handle, with the knuckles of the several turns facing the lineal center of the frame.

3. A mop comprising a handle, a reelshaped metal frame having a number of sides greater than two attached to the sides of said handle and extending beyond the lower end, and a mop head composed of separate wisps of yarn, each of said wisps turned about one of the sides of said frame and held under stress against the end of the handle.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

ROBT. L. HORSLEY. 

